On Aug 20, 2:03 am, "Eisboch" wrote:
"Calif Bill" wrote in message

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And you forgot about the old Silicon Rectifiers.

You probably mean the old Selenium Rectifiers. The ones that stunk like
rotten eggs when they went bad.

Eisboch

The ones that never were sealed good and even lengthy exposure to
humidity would eat them up?

A lot of battery chargers are still made with them today. They're not
the most efficient and are costly. When they'd go bad, my dad would
replace them with truck diodes. that would definitely hold till the
transformer went out...